THERE is no way democracy can be divorced from elections. In fact, elections are the handmaid of democracy. In advanced democracies of the world, they have attained a level whereby their electoral system is transparent, peaceful, orderly and generally acceptable. Situations whereby electoral officials collude and or connive with discredited politicians to subvert the peoples’ will […]

WITH the recent happenings in the country especially agitation for a new constitution, should it be concluded that democracy is under threat?  I do not think so at all. First, democracy, like a seed, when planted must be allowed to germinate.  For it to blossom to maturity and produce bountiful fruits, it must be nurtured, watered, […]

OF all the impeachments carried out, that of Chief Joshua Chibi Dariye, the erstwhile Governor of Plateau State proved intractable and became the most discussed, perhaps as a result of certain peculiarities and features. Long before DSP Alamieyeseigha of Bayelsa State was arrested and arraigned at a London Court, Joshua Chibi Dariye had been investigated […]

 One day, in 1987, I wrote a letter to the Editor – Mr Toye Akiyode – to lodge a complaint that the paper was not publishing anything of interest for sales and marketing managers. Unexpectedly, a reply came in less than two weeks; asking for four articles covering half page of the paper

State of emergency THE provision for declaration of emergency in the 1999 Constitution is not by accident. It is a product of necessity essentially to safeguard the protection of life and property and prevent a resort to anarchy in appropriate cases. This explains why then President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic […]